Beauty is only skin deep. I still think del.icio.us is the most beautiful social network of them all because it is pure, skeletal information and some accompanying scrawling in the margins. I recently wrote about an amazing del.iciou.us based project that truly captures the potential of the application.
I think all of the sites in the article are really over designed. They look nice, but well.. gratuitous. Flckr is the only one in the bunch I dig at all.
I think deviantart is really missing from this list ;)
Thomas
· 2 years ago
I would add the new german fitnessnetwork www.gymgo.de to your list.
Anonimo
· 2 years ago
Did you forget iminlikewithyou.com? It has a greaaat design.
Pete Cashmore
· 2 years ago
Yeah, that one does have an awesome design.
lull
· 2 years ago
gosh, what about Last.fm ???
tdave365
· 2 years ago
How about the beautiful web itself where all you need is something like MS notepad, an FTP client, and some creativity?
Before "Web 2.0" it was one giant social network. You could link password-free to anyone you wanted, post files, pictures, all sorts of templates, and even links to databases. Sorry to see it going but hopefully we'll acknowledge it after everything has been FaceBooked to death.
Dave
Rick
· 2 years ago
Hi, beauty is only skin deep.
The flow of (Helloworld.com) is stunning, and after I got a free trial from myspace/rickhurstdottv I just fell in love with it.
Warts and all !!!
Anonymous Cow
· 2 years ago
BORING!
admin
· 2 years ago
ok, but where is del.icio.us in this list from where i found this list?
i think you don't know the site, cause it's not listet.
none
· 2 years ago
I really like Vox, the good thing is that it makes blogging easy for my non-nerdy family.
Ray's Logo Designs Blog
· 2 years ago
Cool ones...and I thought Oobing - "The Next Gen Social Network"was really great...these I've never heard of but they are better it seems...way to go...
Musicshedd.com is the best social site for musicians to learn how to play instruments and socials with each other.
Spike
· 2 years ago
Any list without Vox is greatly flawed. Your opinions are now rendered useless. Besides, some of the sites you picked are just plain ugly.
g
· 2 years ago
I think it's great to see these sites try to simplify and keep the the sites nice and clean. Less is more.
Sergio
· 2 years ago
Why is it that DeviantArt is always left out of these social networks?
Jonny R.
· 2 years ago
iilwy.com is nice but i can understand if it isn't included considering it isn't completely public. Also, makeoutclub.com's redesign is a huge improvement over the old site.
andy collins
· 1 year ago
check out bil pimps hil on aol vid put it on you tube
gasGuzzla
· 2 years ago
what, no mention of wallop?
Alejondra
· 1 year ago
What about thewhale? come on dudes!
Steven
· 2 years ago
XMG Image has a great design and killer photo manipulation features... http://xmgimage.com
One of my first impressions of the site was that they don't follow the "myspace" social network template. Beauty is of course subjective, but I think they've done a great job to set their design apart from anything else I've seen and wanted to give them some props.
Stellar
· 2 years ago
Virb, Trig and PureVolume each share that modern, dark edge. Very crisp and poignant. Others seem more straightforward and inviting. No doubt that other social music sites I like (such as radiofire.net) could be a lot better if the design was freshened up.
Tushar Chakrovarti
· 2 years ago
Really liked your complete list of SN-websites.....Virb experience was quite awesome!
In future, if you compile a list of graphics magazine do consider http://www.cgindia.org, not best of the design although very resourceful.
chris keane
· 2 years ago
I think Asoboo deserves consideration - they provide a clean, elegant design that focuses heavily on the content and photos instead of decorative elements.
benz
· 2 years ago
i like it.informative.
kidsolo
· 2 years ago
wow, they look great
Muanz Anjum
· 2 years ago
Cool!
This post is really informative. I have bookmarked it in popular sites including digg. I have even subscribed RSS feed and put the same in my blog - http://infotechone.blogspot.com
It is a place where anyone can go to if they have a beauty question, or a problem. they can be anonymous or can post pictures of any before and after procedures. They can blog, join a forum, start a topic or group and also purchase my custom line of skin rejuvenating products called: Yogessence-The essence of Knowledge.
Can discuss terms and payment.
amit
· 2 years ago
hi , i m very much interested in workin for your website.
For Spiritual Social Networking this is the place ot be. This could be the next Spiritual MySpace.
Om
· 2 years ago
With my space and facebook around, there has been a void for spiritual networking. I think KarmaCaffe will be the next biggest social network for spiritually minded folks.
Bill Thuther
· 2 years ago
Especially with Myspace being an info gathering tool for Rupert Murdoch and Facebook being one for the CIA.
Faisal
· 2 years ago
When it comes to social networks, I choose usefulness before the look: Most social networks are just a waste of time
Social networks should be useful for business netorking, jobs and education
Artist Nation is a great resource for performing artists and musicians. Join free to receive an artist profile. Managed artists and management agencies can add their entire rosters too, with their logo and website link prominently displayed.
Free exposure, artist searches by different criteria, and more.
jinqiu
· 2 years ago
I think the design of Greenway 3C is one of the coolest. This is an example http://we.slchina.org/mba
Richard Franing
· 2 years ago
A TRILOGY ON METAPHYSICS AND THE HUMAN SOUL (Dedicated to the Honor and the Glory of God) -------------------------------------------- A SHORT TREATISE ON THE REALITY OF GOD God is the ultimate reality. He has spun the universes into existence and has created all other beings. As humans, we too had our beginning from God. Like Plato and Socrates, I believe that we pre-existed in a spiritual realm prior to being born into this world. Unfortunately the church fathers, with the exceptions of Origen and Augustine, rejected this view as an overreaction to the heresies of gnosticism and neoplatonism that threatened to subvert the Gospel. How do I know of this pre-existence? I have very faint memories of a spiritual existence before being born into this world. My children spoke of this of this existence when they were small. I have heard of other 2-4 year old children being able to talk of their own pre-existence in the spiritual realm prior to their earthly birth, when carefully questioned about it. One couple I know of had three boys who each spoke of having been with God and the angels prior to birth without any prompting from their parents when they were small. Evidently as people age and develop, these memories are overlaid with countless earthly memories and are largely forgotten. One may ask why are we here and forced to leave that spiritual realm. I believe that the answer lies in the fall of Lucifer from Heaven along with a third of the angels. It is my own belief that human spirits were originally intended to be part of Lucifer's cadre in the spiritual realm. Once Lucifer fell, there was no further need for our existence in the spiritual realm, since we had been created to serve Lucifer in carrying out his heavenly responsibilities. Lucifer's disobedience led to our own eventual banishment from Heaven, even though we were not involved in his revolt against God. God in His infinite mercy has brought us to this world to perfect our redemption. He is bound by His own spiritual laws in the eternal realm, but at the temporal level, He can rewrite our destiny through His plan for our redemption. Had not Adam and Eve disobeyed God, this plan would have been much simpler and salvation would have been universal for all mankind. When that couple listened to Lucifer rather than obey God, suddenly salvation became much more difficult. Man had chosen sides and was no longer just an innocent bystander thus bringing condemnation on all mankind who was to be born on earth from that time forward. Man himself had sinned against God and lost his opportunity for an easier salvation. To put it in the vernacular, man really blew it. Now man's disobedience had to dealt with in a manner satisfying God, fulfilling the new parameters now required for our salvation and permit our return to the spiritual realm (Heaven) after leaving this earthly sojourn. Christ, the second person of the Godhead, came to earth in the form of a man to die a sacrificial death for our redemption so that by believing in Him and on His death, we can be redeemed and made new spiritual beings fit for His kingdom. Through Christ, the Holy Spirit creates us anew and we are reshaped into His image, no longer designed to follow after Lucifer and his entourage. Praise be to the Father, Son and Holy Spirit for their gift of salvation through the Son's loving sacrifice of Himself on the cross, the Father's willingness to send Him and the Spirit's perseverance in causing us to believe. Some have a difficult time grasping the concept of the Trinity. The Trinity is the three distinct, separate, yet simultaneously occurring dynamic states in which God exists and through which He expresses Himself. It may be easier to understand the Trinity by the functions they perform. The Father is the Creator of His creation. The Son controls the interface relationship between the Creator and His creation. The Holy Spirit permeates the creation carrying out the will of the Father and the Son. Others may ask how does God create worlds and universes, i.e. this temporal existence. I believe the new physics gives us an insight into God's methods. The big bang which began our universe was caused by a large quantum fluctuation. These fluctuations are believed by some cosmologists to be power spikes in a tremendous quantum field of incredible intensity. Since there are undoubtedly many of these power spikes, and at the top of each powerful enough spike is a created universe, there are probably many overlapping sister universes to our universe in existence at this very moment. They are separated from each other only by the different quantum time value that each universe possesses. Thus we can not see or sense them nor can they see or sense us. You may ask how does God fit into the overall scheme of these things. I truly believe that the energy that creates and drives this quantum field issues forth from the mind of God even as He speaks the Word. The beauty of God and His methods is that while we may seem far removed from where God is, He is only a prayer away. He loves us and cares for us, who believe on His dear Son, and longs that all mankind will come to a saving faith in His beloved Son; but God wants our love freely given and not given through coercion. He gives us His Holy Spirit to guide us and lead us into paths of righteousness for His namesake. All that is required of us is simple faith in our living Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. I look forward to the day that I return to the spiritual realm from which we have come and can worship, adore, praise and glorify Him forever. Our Lord made a way back where there was no way, so that we may dwell with Him and enjoy Him forever. Praise be to God that He has not left us nor forsaken us, but through His death established His plan for our salvation when we come to believe on His shed blood. Hallelujah, God is truly great and greatly to be worshiped in spirit and truth. In awe of the Living God Richard E. Franing
AN INTERPRETATION OF GENESIS ONE I've decided to take a shot at this one, so you folks need to get the stake ready along with the rope, wood and matches because I'm about to reveal my pet theory concerning the first chapter of Genesis. In second Peter 3:8, we find the following in the RSV version: "But do not ignore this fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years and a thousand years is as one day." This is a way of saying that God is the creator and ruler of time as well as every thing else in this universe and beyond. So even a million or a billion years can be as one day or one nanosecond to Him as He chooses it to be, since He is beyond time. With that in mind, lets move into Genesis. In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. I think that this represents the start of our universe. The heavens representing space and the earth representing matter. The earth being without form and void and the Spirit of God hovered above the waters. The matter had not coalesced together sufficiently to form large physical bodies in space, but had coalesced enough that internal heat within the matter was driving off water vapor that may have condensed on the surface of that matter. Then God said let there be light. This was beginning of nuclear fusion in our universe, along with planet building. Where the light hit these protoplanets, there was day and on the backside of these bodies was night just as God had commanded. Obviously it took billions of our years for our universe to reach this stage, but to God that is little more than a blink of the eye. God called this time the first day. The morning and the evening being whatever time that God wishes it to be or when He wishes it to be. I think it highly unlikely He is saying an Earthday at this point because our solar system had not been created yet, that did not occur until the fourth day. On the second day God separated the waters into the seas and the sky. Evidently certain planets in scattered solar systems had cooled enough for their atmospheres to start clearing instead of one big shroud of clouds enveloping these planets from their surfaces upward. This probably took millions of years to occur. During this day God formed the land surfaces upon these planets. Again in God's time there could have been another blink of His spiritual eyes. Evening could be when He closes His eyes and the morning when He opens them again. So ended the second day. (I can see that you folks have erected the stake and gathered the firewood. You're having a cookout! Right?). On the third day, God brought forth vegetation. There have probably been many planets within our universe in times past and yet today that have some forms of life upon them. This is God's universe, along with any others, and He can do with them whatever He so desires. Who are we to limit Him to only caring about what happens on our dinky little planet, as important as it is to us? Don't get me wrong, God does care about us and this Earth, but We are not His only responsibility. Again God blinks His eyes and another day is over in His book, even though more millions of Earth type years may have elapsed. On the fourth day God created our sun, the moon and obviously the planets in our solar system. From this point on, I think that God is referring to our planet when He speaks of the earth, although He is not yet talking in Earthdays when He speaks. We tend to limit God into our way of thinking, not realizing that He is far greater than we could ever imagine. God also created the land and plants on our Earth in this time frame. This "day" must have been several billion Earth years long. It is wonderful that God never gets tired doing all this creating, because if He did He would probably get worn out just trying to keep up with all the petitions I offer up to His throne, let alone those that everyone else bring to Him in prayer. On the fifth day, God created the animals. Plants were already in existence on the Earth, being part of his previous day's work. This time frame probably lasted hundreds of millions of Earth years. As you can tell by now, I think that God used an evolutionary process to bring this to past. Not a random type of evolution, but a God inspired and God driven evolutionary process that only He is capable of doing. Truly we have a great and awe inspiring God. On the sixth day, we arrive at the place where the rubber meets the road so to speak. Did God create man? You bet He did. Did God use an evolutionary process to create man from the higher mammal animals? You bet He did. (GASP!) You say what about Adam? I think He came along later. This day probably lasted several million years. God looked at all of this creation and declared it good. Who are we to argue with God about something like that. If He says it is good, then it must be good. Anyway God decided He needed a little vacation after all that work of creating. I'll bet my bottom dollar that the seventh day did not last even two Earth seconds, because God loves what He is doing so much that He won't ever give it up and keeps on keeping on. Getting back to Adam, I believe that Adam was the first human with a spirit bearing soul. God created him from the dust of the Earth and breathed life into Him because God had created him for a special purpose. Adam was a perfect man. He could not say that bad genes had caused him to sin. Likewise Eve whom God created from Adam was perfect. These two were to be the first of mankind to enter into this world with a God created spirit. All men existing before Adam had a soul, but no spirit indwelling that soul. This leads me to think that the fall of Lucifer from Heaven occurred sometime after the sixth day. This I have reason to believe: that spirits of men are leftover remnants from the old order that existed in Heaven before Lucifer launched his revolt against God. As beings who did not take part in that revolt, but nevertheless of suspect loyalty to God, we could not remain in Heaven in our old form. We have to be transformed into new creatures before we are acceptable to God again. This is the purpose of our earthly existence. God knew that Lucifer and a third of the angels were going to revolt against him. He also had originally created us as subangelic beings to assist Lucifer in carrying out his heavenly responsibilities, before Lucifer got the big head and decided to try to take over God's position. I wonder if that happened while God was on vacation during the seventh day. It would be just like old Lucifer to try something like that. Anyway, once God decided that we subangelic spiritual beings (see Hebrews 2:7) could no longer dwell in His heavenly kingdom in our then spiritual form and He began thinking of ways to change us. He could not do this at the eternal level because He is constrained by His own eternal laws at that level. He had to bring us to a temporal level to accomplish that. Since a suitable vehicle (man) was already in place to accomplish this objective, God decided to piggyback these spirits into men's souls. This is why our soul also contains a God created spirit (see Hebrews 4:12). Adam was the first of these spirit souled men. Had he not disobeyed God, he would have been permitted to eventually eat of the tree of life and been transformed into an eternal creature, with rights to dwell with God forever. Adam and Eve were a special test case. God knew that if they failed the test, then all men from that point on would fail this test. They were cast out of the Garden and forced to live among the other existing humans. From that time on all human beings have had a spirit bearing soul. How long will this go on? Probably until heaven is emptied of its condemned subangelic spirits or until the church on Earth becomes so decadent that so few are getting saved and transformed thru faith in the shed blood of the Lord Jesus Christ, that there is no purpose in continuing the process. This why spirit bearing souls should not be aborted and the Gospel must be preached with great fervor everywhere on Earth. This is our one and only chance to be able to dwell with God forever. We pass this way but once and each spirit bearing soul gets only one chance. There is no reincarnation. We must not rob ourselves or future generations of this sole opportunity for salvation. Once Adam failed, only the new Adam (Jesus Christ) could salvage the situation for us. He is the Way, the Truth and the Life. He who has Christ has eternal life and this life is in God's only begotten Son. I have presented this theory, not as an absolute truth, but as an attempt to bridge the difference between fact and faith. Many people choose to ignore the physical facts around us or to twist them to agree with their particular interpretation of God's Word. Likewise too many people ignore the Scriptures in a vain attempt to arrive at the facts. God does not lie nor do the facts lie, and ultimately they are saying the same thing. (So why are you folks grabbing me, not the stake. Oh well, let the flames begin. (Arrrgh!!!) Thoughtfully yours in Christ Jesus, Dick Franing
A SHORT TREATISE ON ORIGINAL SIN The Lord God took man and put him in the garden of Eden to till it and keep it. And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, "You may freely eat of every tree of the garden; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall die." But the serpent said to the woman, "You will not die. For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil." .....she took of its fruit and ate; and she also gave some to her husband, and he ate. Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they were naked. ..... Then the Lord God said, "Behold the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil; and now lest he put forth his hand and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever"---therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken. He drove out the man: and at the east of the garden of Eden he placed the cherubim, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life. (excerpts from the Book of Genesis, Chapters 2 and 3) How often has man pondered these words throughout the ensuing centuries and speculated as to their exact meaning. Some say that it was an actual fruit such as an apple, some look at it as being an abstract historical event, some think of it as a crisis of the spirit that man experienced, while others think that these verses represent a supernatural experience that Adam and Eve had. Some people think that it represents some form or type of superior knowledge. Still others think of it as a mythical story told to explain how sin began. None of these concepts are comprehensive enough to adequately explain the true nature of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. I fear that I now know the meaning of these verses. The tree of this knowledge lies deep within the soul of man. It is what the Christian teacher Watchman Nee refers to as "the latent power of the soul". So what is this latent power that lies hidden deep within the inner recesses of man's soul? I believe that it is a type of angelic power, which might be better thought of as Adamic power. Man is a sub-angelic being who is endowed with a certain degree of latent angelic capability. Man is not an angel, but man may be distantly related to the angels in some manner. Under certain circumstances, the latent angelic capability of a relatively few number of people can become momentarily activated for short periods of time. Probably at least 99% of the human race never experiences any of this activation and thus are totally oblivious to the existence of the latent angelic capability within themselves. Activation of this capability primarily occurs during spiritual dreams while asleep. The person begins a troubled dream while in a deep sleep, then slips into a state of spiritual dreaming through which the person can temporarily enter into the angelic mode. While in this temporary angelic mode, the person is able to direct the course of future events, depending what the subject of spiritual dream is. If the person exercises his angelic powers in concert with the direction of the Holy Spirit of God, the results will be good and beneficial. If the person exercises his angelic powers in a unilateral manner, then the results will inevitably be evil. The person acting in a unilateral way is trying to play God by usurping God's authority in total disregard to God's will. This is the reason why Adam and Eve fell in the garden. As a result, they were stripped of their innocence and left naked before the Lord. It appears that the ability to be activated runs in certain families. It may also be that this ability may skip generations within a family, as well as individuals within an active generation. My father's mother was an angelically active person, but my father never experienced activation as I have. In honesty, I must admit that I have exercised this angelic power both ways in the past, for the good of mankind when exercised in concert with the Holy Spirit and to the detriment of man when I exercised it unilaterally. This was largely done in ignorance before I realized what the exact nature of this power was and how capricious this Adamic power can be. It has a Jekyll and Hyde quality about it and must be exercised with extreme caution and then only under the guidance of the Holy Spirit. Adam was warned about this danger, but he chose to disregard God's warning. When God told Adam not to eat of that tree, He was telling him not to exercise his angelic capability because it would cause him fail the test and all future mankind with him. After man's fall in the Garden, this capability became latent. Because Adam sinned, he was not permitted to eat of the tree of life. The way of the tree of life would have to be personified in the Way, the Truth and the Life in order for man to have that opportunity again to gain eternal life and that life is in God's only begotten son, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. My experience with this phenomenon is that it begins in earnest during the early teen years, reaches its peak about 30-35 years of age and then slowly declines until it reaches a point of near cessation during one's lower fifties. The time of greatest power during a person's early thirties is also the time of greatest danger because it when the greatest extremes of good and evil are possible. Momentary angelity can a potent stealth weapon if used unwisely. Following one's spiritual instincts can indeed be dangerous, thus the person must stay close to God and be clothed in His righteousness. The old testament and book of Acts states that the young men shall see visions and the old men shall dream dreams. In those days, an old man could be any man past the age of thirty because life expectancy was not very long in those days. I have experienced these visions and dreams in the past. The visions are basically learning experiences while the dreams are basically doing experiences. Adam lost any chance to gain access to the tree of life in the garden when he disobeyed God, thereby losing the opportunity for eternal life with God in heaven. As children of Adam, we also share that lost opportunity, but God in his great mercy has created another way for us to obtain eternal life with Him. God sent his Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, to die and shed his blood to free us from the first Adam's curse and our own sin. Through faith in the Lord Jesus we are born anew into God's family and receive the promise of the Father that we will stand faultless before the throne at the day of judgement. We are no longer children of disobedience, but we are now children of God fit for His kingdom. All that is required of us is simple faith in the Lord Jesus and His sacrificial death on the cross, and to open our hearts and minds to the working of the Holy Spirit of God. Man tries his own methods of attempting to tap into this latent angelic capability that some are vaguely aware of within themselves. Some gnostics, certain psychics, many new agers, kundalini yogis, certain mediums and supernaturalists of various kinds are trying in their own way to regain the power that Adam and Eve possessed, abused and subsequently lost during the fall. Little do they realize that they are playing with spiritual dynamite. A few people may try to regain this Adamic power with an intent of somehow attaining angelic status which they think might give them access to the tree of life. God has blocked this route with his cherubim and flaming sword. They would be far better off to seek the Lord Jesus Christ and His righteousness as the path to eternal life. Having experienced this Adamic power first hand, I am well acquainted with good and evil even as Adam was. I thank God that Christ is my refuge, that in Him I find forgiveness through faith in His shed blood and that He sets my feet on the path of righteousness for His name's sake. Truly He is the Way, the Truth and the Life. Praise be to God for His everlasting grace, love and mercy. Under the Blood of Jesus, Richard E. Franing
PaulNHS
· 1 year ago
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Climate change
· 2 years ago
Love this site really good info
Thanks
Martyn
· 2 years ago
Bookmarked by more than a 1,000 people in Del.icio.us if only they'd listen ;-)
myspate
· 1 year ago
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Shiva
· 1 year ago
I saw the comments above about the lack spiritual social networking...
There is a beautiful and very popular spiritual social networking called Guru's Feet (http://www.gurusfeet.com)
It provides social networking (they call it spiritual networking), blogs, forums, spiritual communities, listing of gurus and ashrams, online universal temple and other many spiritual gadgets.
According to their manifesto in the website, their aim is to promote inter-religion/tradition unity, to provide spiritual people from different religions, beliefs and traditions a place where they can develope their own community around a guru/religion etc while opening to other people of other beliefs.
A great cause for a social networking!
This arena is for long time not a void and it seems that spiritual people are very communicative and sustained members of this portal. I have been there for over 3 months.
Diana
· 1 year ago
Nice website.
See below about Guru's Feet social networking (http://www.gurusfeet.com). The spiritual social networking is not a void for quite a long time...
iCloseBe
· 1 year ago
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iFob brings reality back to social networking. If you have a life, and go to hotspots, then iFob will help you find real people. iFob is native software for the iPhone, iPod touch and laptops, which finds other iFob users who are physically close by. iFob doesn't use a site, and doesn't need any kind of registration or account creation. You just install iFob on your iPhone, iPod or laptop, and then as you go in and out of coffee houses or other hotspots, iFob works like a radio beacon to say, "I am here!" At the same time, your copy of iFob listens to see who is also saying, "I am here!"
Whenever two copies of iFob find each other, they will light up and automatically exchange "micro profiles" with each other. If you are worried about privacy, you can set your copy of iFob just to "Listen," so you will see other people's micro profiles, but they will not see yours until you want them to. Because there is no login or registration with iFob, you can change your iFob user name, or your micro-profile, as often as you want. You can use iFob as a tool, or use it as a social networking game where you exchange user names and micro descriptions of yourself with real people who are just a smile away.
iFob for the Apple iPhone and iPod touch is free software, with a large community of users, most have found out about iFob from bloggers. In addition, iFob is now included in a trusted application repository under the "Network" category so that anyone who has a "Jailbroken" iPhone or iPod touch can download it directly from the Installer app. iFob can be also be found on the download section of www.iCloseby.com
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www.xerpi.com is a great site to check out- it's essential & clean. Not only is it a easy way to manage your favorites but you have tailored access to friend's and public view's; helpful navigation tools and other cool widgets (anything from mobile blocks to youtube videos, etc) I really like the layout- very organic & visual. Once you start adding friend's and community blocks it's a great way to filter the sites that you are really interested in and still have videos, pics, other widgets on your page.
Teresa
· 1 year ago
Beautiful spiritual network.
Jamie
· 1 year ago
Great Post. This is some of the best information on social netoworks yet! good job =)
Lisa
· 1 year ago
That's an awesome post, thanks for your time! Shelfari looks quite nice, didn't know that one before.
I never even heard of half these sites. Thanks for the info. I'm not technically a MySpace hater, but those pages are quite ugly. The interface is outdated. Of course most of the users are teens, so for adults prefer something more visually appealing. Confusion is appealing to kids. The web is changing so much every day, so thanks for helping me keep up.
Helen
· 1 year ago
Danke fuer Ihre Information!
alan
· 1 year ago
Great Post. This is some of the best information on social netoworks yet! good job)>
serg
· 1 year ago
%20
Charnita Morring-Fance
· 1 year ago
Very nice list, I had to go check them all out. They all look different now but they're still nice! :)
Beautiful, indeed. If we were to spend time on all these, I'm not sure 54 hours a day would be enough.
Mikhail
· 1 year ago
How about the beautiful web itself where all you need is something like MS notepad, an FTP client, and some creativity?
Before "Web 2.0" it was one giant social network. You could link password-free to anyone you wanted, post files, pictures, all sorts of templates, and even links to databases. Sorry to see it going but hopefully we'll acknowledge it after everything has been FaceBooked to death.
Beauty does matter - that's why I like MOLI. And I have different profiles with different looks for different uses (work, social, family). I like the clean look of Facebook but I don't want to share pictures of my friends with my extended family, or with my colleagues at work! Let alone have my colleagues see comments on my Wall!
nice source for those who are looking for social networking .
Social Networking Income
· 1 year ago
check out my blog for how to manipulate social networks in your favor
NFL Jersey
· 1 year ago
Threadless is pretty cool. However none of my slogans have been picked up :(
ghjnby
· 1 year ago
go for it
KEV
· 1 year ago
This is a BRAND new one --Has everything on it- Just check it out at website listed
Golden Key Quest
· 1 year ago
We're not bad, for a beginner...
Golden Key Quest
On the excellent Ning platform.
DanielJ5
· 1 year ago
Don't forget about Toober.com...that social network actually pays you to be a member! It's pretty cool. they use ad dollars (I assume) to rewards their members!
Kamran
· 1 year ago
Monaco Motion is my network of choice!! It has been under development for most of the year but has finally been launched. It serves as a social networking site for the world's elite. Membership to the ultra-exclusive community requires an application, along with a $10 USD application fee!! I'm so glad it has finally launched!! Well worth the wait!!....of course you will first have to be accepted. A quick word of advice for applicants....choose Bughatti Veyron as your car of choice!
Wanted: Critics, contributors, writers, bloggers and visitors to this website. Will welcome comments on ways and means to generate more interest and how to get more advertising revenue in order to hire a team and pay for ongoing development. Any takers? Email me and we can talk!
Jo
· 1 year ago
Wanted: Critics, contributors, writers, bloggers and visitors to this website. Will welcome comments on ways and means to generate more interest and how to get more advertising revenue in order to hire a team and pay for ongoing development. Please go to: www.mybeautysecretsonline.com, Your MySpace for Beauty!
Any takers? Guys: Need input on what you like to see on the site to make it appealing?
Ian Blake
· 1 year ago
I just wonder why many of this neat sites are not necessarily the best of their kind. I guess a pretty face is not the most important thing anymore. ;o)
Thomas Vorhese
· 1 year ago
Looking back on this list it is pretty cool. I really enjoy it. One site that is not the most beautiful but it is the easies to use. wwww.filmcrave.com is the easiest social network site to use. You should do a feature on easiest social networking sites to use.
balootisme
· 1 year ago
i think, the most beautiful social network in Malaysia is Friendster. i love friendster very much. this is the most popular social network in my country.
Master Hater
· 1 year ago
WTF is this trash? A site's looks matters absolutely not at all. If you can be entertained by the site then it is worthy. Members make social networks.
facebook recently changed its interface,what was once the best on the market,is now no longer,it ripped off twitter for its new home page and apple for the way they display your profile pics i-e there identical to the apps on your ipod,they failed to buy out twitter,and then struck a deal with them to allow facebook statuses to be viewed on twitters tweetdeck,the backlash against facebook from its own user base is quite staggering yet facebook are burying there heads in the sand over the issue and disregarding,the people who essentially put them where they are.,dave morin from facebook says this "micro blogging is the future of the internet".facebook did what it did superbly,twitter if your interested in this format does what it does apparantley good,im not interested in it.which is what irritates among a lot of other issues brought on by this,the majority of facebook users.in facebooks present incarnation i wouldnt recomend it to a blind man.
casino gambling bonus
· 8 months ago
Seems that several networks have finally started investing more in their appearance and usability....its about time
well ive got to say now i know were ever one went haahaa lol
bc
· 7 months ago
Beautiful Society has too many errors, pages won't load properly...when you try to complain about the problem, there's noboby to complain to, contact info page is empty.
What a find. Super site guys, keep up the good work
Natd
· 5 months ago
HELP- looking to purchase very innovative web 2.0 social networking template(s) for sale... any suggestions? Thanks.
Student Talk
· 4 months ago
Thank you for sharing this information.
Jenny
· 4 months ago
Hi, Have you been on Zovue.com (www.zovue.com)? It is really beautiful! I like the colors and the customization that you can do. It's not jam-packed with unwanted things that accumulate on your page. They also have great HQ photo and video sharing, as well as their popular communal shopping
ron
· 4 months ago
one day i hope one of my favorite (golf) site ( golforbis.com) will be on top! and yes myspace blows!
Student Talk
· 4 months ago
We need more social sites specialized on it's field.
But where is twitter? And Digg? Aren't these beautiful? I think Twitter is very beautiful because of its simplicity, simple things always look better!
Here's another social network with a great, beautiful concept. It's called Trustler (http://trustler.com). If Twitter tends to answer the question: What are you doing?, then Trustler answers: What do people think about me?
Jason
· 3 months ago
Do you have a section for the most unattractive social networks? I would like to suggest my site for that list if you decide to create it. Currently we are a number one of Google SERP for investor social network. However, we have very few social networking tools available.
myonder.com
· 3 months ago
I would like to inform you about www.myonder.com - perfect social networking site
i think www.thepalz.com is an up and coming system. Many features like tweeting, confessions, photos, videos. All the main social networking sites in one.
Randall Klopping
· 3 months ago
Thanks you! As a disabled artist I have to rely on free sites to show my work and this was VERY helpful in finding a couple more places I can meet people and show my work.
Alex
· 2 months ago
http://stateofplanet.org Social network to bring together people on the planet Earth. Our social network serves all of Humanity. The network is called the Motherland.
All Comments
(how about that for commentary pete?)
:D
i think del.icio.us is functional...but not beautiful. I think we are talking about beauty in design here.
I think all of the sites in the article are really over designed. They look nice, but well.. gratuitous. Flckr is the only one in the bunch I dig at all.
http://www.mog.com
my vote! (dislaimer - i work here)
-d
:-)
Before "Web 2.0" it was one giant social network. You could link password-free to anyone you wanted, post files, pictures, all sorts of templates, and even links to databases. Sorry to see it going but hopefully we'll acknowledge it after everything has been FaceBooked to death.
Dave
The flow of (Helloworld.com) is stunning, and after I got a free trial from myspace/rickhurstdottv I just fell in love with it.
Warts and all !!!
!!!
i think you don't know the site, cause it's not listet.
http://www.celebralike.com
Less is more.
http://xmgimage.com
One of my first impressions of the site was that they don't follow the "myspace" social network template. Beauty is of course subjective, but I think they've done a great job to set their design apart from anything else I've seen and wanted to give them some props.
In future, if you compile a list of graphics magazine do consider http://www.cgindia.org, not best of the design although very resourceful.
This post is really informative. I have bookmarked it in popular sites including digg. I have even subscribed RSS feed and put the same in my blog - http://infotechone.blogspot.com
Thanks for such a nice post!
Long live web 2.0!
Regds
Munaz
You should also check out www.moli.com
Its a new community site that I just joined.
-Matt
I am looking for some geeks or a geek squad to have fun designing my website www.mybeautysecretzonline.com
It is a place where anyone can go to if they have a beauty question, or a problem. they can be anonymous or can post pictures of any before and after procedures. They can blog, join a forum, start a topic or group and also purchase my custom line of skin rejuvenating products called: Yogessence-The essence of Knowledge.
Can discuss terms and payment.
i m very much interested in workin for your website.
www.KarmaCaffe.com
For Spiritual Social Networking this is the place ot be.
This could be the next Spiritual MySpace.
Social networks should be useful for business netorking, jobs and education
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Video Chat VOIP Phone Forum Romantic 3D Chat
Voting Matching Gallery Blogs videos Flash games
Instant Messenger
I guess someone did it :)
www.planetofinternet.com
Artist Nation is a great resource for performing artists and musicians. Join free to receive an artist profile. Managed artists and management agencies can add their entire rosters too, with their logo and website link prominently displayed.
Free exposure, artist searches by different criteria, and more.
(Dedicated to the Honor and the Glory of God)
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A SHORT TREATISE ON THE REALITY OF GOD
God is the ultimate reality. He has spun the universes into existence
and has created all other beings. As humans, we too had our beginning
from God. Like Plato and Socrates, I believe that we pre-existed in a
spiritual realm prior to being born into this world. Unfortunately the
church fathers, with the exceptions of Origen and Augustine, rejected
this view as an overreaction to the heresies of gnosticism and
neoplatonism that threatened to subvert the Gospel. How do I know of
this pre-existence? I have very faint memories of a spiritual existence
before being born into this world. My children spoke of this of this
existence when they were small. I have heard of other 2-4 year old
children being able to talk of their own pre-existence in the spiritual
realm prior to their earthly birth, when carefully questioned about it.
One couple I know of had three boys who each spoke of having been with
God and the angels prior to birth without any prompting from their
parents when they were small. Evidently as people age and develop,
these memories are overlaid with countless earthly memories and are
largely forgotten.
One may ask why are we here and forced to leave that spiritual realm.
I believe that the answer lies in the fall of Lucifer from Heaven along
with a third of the angels. It is my own belief that human spirits were
originally intended to be part of Lucifer's cadre in the spiritual
realm. Once Lucifer fell, there was no further need for our existence
in the spiritual realm, since we had been created to serve Lucifer in
carrying out his heavenly responsibilities. Lucifer's disobedience led
to our own eventual banishment from Heaven, even though we were not
involved in his revolt against God. God in His infinite mercy has
brought us to this world to perfect our redemption. He is bound by His
own spiritual laws in the eternal realm, but at the temporal level, He
can rewrite our destiny through His plan for our redemption. Had not
Adam and Eve disobeyed God, this plan would have been much simpler and
salvation would have been universal for all mankind. When that couple
listened to Lucifer rather than obey God, suddenly salvation became
much more difficult. Man had chosen sides and was no longer just an
innocent bystander thus bringing condemnation on all mankind who was to
be born on earth from that time forward.
Man himself had sinned against God and lost his opportunity for an
easier salvation. To put it in the vernacular, man really blew it. Now
man's disobedience had to dealt with in a manner satisfying God,
fulfilling the new parameters now required for our salvation and permit
our return to the spiritual realm (Heaven) after leaving this earthly
sojourn. Christ, the second person of the Godhead, came to earth in the
form of a man to die a sacrificial death for our redemption so that by
believing in Him and on His death, we can be redeemed and made new
spiritual beings fit for His kingdom. Through Christ, the Holy Spirit
creates us anew and we are reshaped into His image, no longer designed
to follow after Lucifer and his entourage.
Praise be to the Father, Son and Holy Spirit for their gift of
salvation through the Son's loving sacrifice of Himself on the cross,
the Father's willingness to send Him and the Spirit's perseverance in
causing us to believe.
Some have a difficult time grasping the concept of the Trinity. The
Trinity is the three distinct, separate, yet simultaneously occurring
dynamic states in which God exists and through which He expresses
Himself. It may be easier to understand the Trinity by the functions
they perform. The Father is the Creator of His creation. The Son
controls the interface relationship between the Creator and His
creation. The Holy Spirit permeates the creation carrying out the will
of the Father and the Son.
Others may ask how does God create worlds and universes, i.e. this
temporal existence. I believe the new physics gives us an insight into
God's methods. The big bang which began our universe was caused by a
large quantum fluctuation. These fluctuations are believed by some
cosmologists to be power spikes in a tremendous quantum field of
incredible intensity. Since there are undoubtedly many of these power
spikes, and at the top of each powerful enough spike is a created
universe, there are probably many overlapping sister universes to our
universe in existence at this very moment. They are separated from each
other only by the different quantum time value that each universe
possesses. Thus we can not see or sense them nor can they see or sense
us. You may ask how does God fit into the overall scheme of these
things. I truly believe that the energy that creates and drives this
quantum field issues forth from the mind of God even as He speaks the
Word. The beauty of God and His methods is that while we may seem far
removed from where God is, He is only a prayer away. He loves us and
cares for us, who believe on His dear Son, and longs that all mankind
will come to a saving faith in His beloved Son; but God wants our love
freely given and not given through coercion. He gives us His Holy
Spirit to guide us and lead us into paths of righteousness for His
namesake. All that is required of us is simple faith in our living Lord
and Savior Jesus Christ.
I look forward to the day that I return to the spiritual realm from
which we have come and can worship, adore, praise and glorify Him
forever. Our Lord made a way back where there was no way, so that we
may dwell with Him and enjoy Him forever. Praise be to God that He has
not left us nor forsaken us, but through His death established His plan
for our salvation when we come to believe on His shed blood.
Hallelujah, God is truly great and greatly to be worshiped in spirit
and truth.
In awe of the Living God
Richard E. Franing
AN INTERPRETATION OF GENESIS ONE
I've decided to take a shot at this one, so you folks need to get the
stake ready along with the rope, wood and matches because I'm about to
reveal my pet theory concerning the first chapter of Genesis. In second
Peter 3:8, we find the following in the RSV version: "But do not ignore
this fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years
and a thousand years is as one day." This is a way of saying that God
is the creator and ruler of time as well as every thing else in this
universe and beyond. So even a million or a billion years can be as one
day or one nanosecond to Him as He chooses it to be, since He is beyond
time. With that in mind, lets move into Genesis. In the beginning God
created the heavens and the earth. I think that this represents the
start of our universe. The heavens representing space and the earth
representing matter. The earth being without form and void and the
Spirit of God hovered above the waters. The matter had not coalesced
together sufficiently to form large physical bodies in space, but had
coalesced enough that internal heat within the matter was driving off
water vapor that may have condensed on the surface of that matter. Then
God said let there be light. This was beginning of nuclear fusion in
our universe, along with planet building. Where the light hit these
protoplanets, there was day and on the backside of these bodies was
night just as God had commanded. Obviously it took billions of our
years for our universe to reach this stage, but to God that is little
more than a blink of the eye.
God called this time the first day. The morning and the evening being
whatever time that God wishes it to be or when He wishes it to be. I
think it highly unlikely He is saying an Earthday at this point because
our solar system had not been created yet, that did not occur until the
fourth day. On the second day God separated the waters into the seas
and the sky. Evidently certain planets in scattered solar systems had
cooled enough for their atmospheres to start clearing instead of one
big shroud of clouds enveloping these planets from their surfaces
upward. This probably took millions of years to occur. During this day
God formed the land surfaces upon these planets. Again in God's time
there could have been another blink of His spiritual eyes. Evening
could be when He closes His eyes and the morning when He opens them
again. So ended the second day. (I can see that you folks have erected
the stake and gathered the firewood. You're having a cookout! Right?).
On the third day, God brought forth vegetation. There have probably
been many planets within our universe in times past and yet today that
have some forms of life upon them. This is God's universe, along with
any others, and He can do with them whatever He so desires. Who are we
to limit Him to only caring about what happens on our dinky little
planet, as important as it is to us? Don't get me wrong, God does care
about us and this Earth, but We are not His only responsibility. Again
God blinks His eyes and another day is over in His book, even though
more millions of Earth type years may have elapsed.
On the fourth day God created our sun, the moon and obviously the
planets in our solar system. From this point on, I think that God is
referring to our planet when He speaks of the earth, although He is not
yet talking in Earthdays when He speaks. We tend to limit God into our
way of thinking, not realizing that He is far greater than we could
ever imagine. God also created the land and plants on our Earth in this
time frame. This "day" must have been several billion Earth years long.
It is wonderful that God never gets tired doing all this creating,
because if He did He would probably get worn out just trying to keep up
with all the petitions I offer up to His throne, let alone those that
everyone else bring to Him in prayer.
On the fifth day, God created the animals. Plants were already in
existence on the Earth, being part of his previous day's work. This
time frame probably lasted hundreds of millions of Earth years. As you
can tell by now, I think that God used an evolutionary process to bring
this to past. Not a random type of evolution, but a God inspired and
God driven evolutionary process that only He is capable of doing. Truly
we have a great and awe inspiring God.
On the sixth day, we arrive at the place where the rubber meets the
road so to speak. Did God create man? You bet He did. Did God use an
evolutionary process to create man from the higher mammal animals? You
bet He did. (GASP!) You say what about Adam? I think He came along
later. This day probably lasted several million years. God looked at
all of this creation and declared it good. Who are we to argue with God
about something like that. If He says it is good, then it must be good.
Anyway God decided He needed a little vacation after all that work of
creating. I'll bet my bottom dollar that the seventh day did not last
even two Earth seconds, because God loves what He is doing so much that
He won't ever give it up and keeps on keeping on.
Getting back to Adam, I believe that Adam was the first human with a
spirit bearing soul. God created him from the dust of the Earth and
breathed life into Him because God had created him for a special
purpose. Adam was a perfect man. He could not say that bad genes had
caused him to sin. Likewise Eve whom God created from Adam was perfect.
These two were to be the first of mankind to enter into this world with
a God created spirit. All men existing before Adam had a soul, but no
spirit indwelling that soul. This leads me to think that the fall of
Lucifer from Heaven occurred sometime after the sixth day. This I have
reason to believe: that spirits of men are leftover remnants from the
old order that existed in Heaven before Lucifer launched his revolt
against God. As beings who did not take part in that revolt, but
nevertheless of suspect loyalty to God, we could not remain in Heaven
in our old form. We have to be transformed into new creatures before we
are acceptable to God again. This is the purpose of our earthly
existence. God knew that Lucifer and a third of the angels were going
to revolt against him. He also had originally created us as subangelic
beings to assist Lucifer in carrying out his heavenly responsibilities,
before Lucifer got the big head and decided to try to take over God's
position. I wonder if that happened while God was on vacation during
the seventh day. It would be just like old Lucifer to try something
like that.
Anyway, once God decided that we subangelic spiritual beings (see
Hebrews 2:7) could no longer dwell in His heavenly kingdom in our then
spiritual form and He began thinking of ways to change us. He could not
do this at the eternal level because He is constrained by His own
eternal laws at that level. He had to bring us to a temporal level to
accomplish that. Since a suitable vehicle (man) was already in place to
accomplish this objective, God decided to piggyback these spirits into
men's souls. This is why our soul also contains a God created spirit
(see Hebrews 4:12). Adam was the first of these spirit souled men. Had
he not disobeyed God, he would have been permitted to eventually eat of
the tree of life and been transformed into an eternal creature, with
rights to dwell with God forever. Adam and Eve were a special test
case. God knew that if they failed the test, then all men from that
point on would fail this test. They were cast out of the Garden and
forced to live among the other existing humans. From that time on all
human beings have had a spirit bearing soul. How long will this go on?
Probably until heaven is emptied of its condemned subangelic spirits or
until the church on Earth becomes so decadent that so few are getting
saved and transformed thru faith in the shed blood of the Lord Jesus
Christ, that there is no purpose in continuing the process. This why
spirit bearing souls should not be aborted and the Gospel must be
preached with great fervor everywhere on Earth. This is our one and
only chance to be able to dwell with God forever. We pass this way but
once and each spirit bearing soul gets only one chance. There is no
reincarnation. We must not rob ourselves or future generations of this
sole opportunity for salvation. Once Adam failed, only the new Adam
(Jesus Christ) could salvage the situation for us. He is the Way, the
Truth and the Life. He who has Christ has eternal life and this life is
in God's only begotten Son.
I have presented this theory, not as an absolute truth, but as an
attempt to bridge the difference between fact and faith. Many people
choose to ignore the physical facts around us or to twist them to agree
with their particular interpretation of God's Word. Likewise too many
people ignore the Scriptures in a vain attempt to arrive at the facts.
God does not lie nor do the facts lie, and ultimately they are saying
the same thing. (So why are you folks grabbing me, not the stake. Oh
well, let the flames begin. (Arrrgh!!!)
Thoughtfully yours in Christ Jesus,
Dick Franing
A SHORT TREATISE ON ORIGINAL SIN
The Lord God took man and put him in the garden of Eden to till it
and keep it. And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, "You may
freely eat of every tree of the garden; but of the tree of the
knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you
eat of it you shall die."
But the serpent said to the woman, "You will not die. For God knows
that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like
God, knowing good and evil." .....she took of its fruit and ate; and
she also gave some to her husband, and he ate. Then the eyes of both
were opened, and they knew that they were naked. .....
Then the Lord God said, "Behold the man has become like one of us,
knowing good and evil; and now lest he put forth his hand and take also
of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever"---therefore the Lord
God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from
which he was taken. He drove out the man: and at the east of the garden
of Eden he placed the cherubim, and a flaming sword which turned every
way, to guard the way to the tree of life.
(excerpts from the Book of Genesis, Chapters 2 and 3)
How often has man pondered these words throughout the ensuing
centuries and speculated as to their exact meaning. Some say that it
was an actual fruit such as an apple, some look at it as being an
abstract historical event, some think of it as a crisis of the spirit
that man experienced, while others think that these verses represent a
supernatural experience that Adam and Eve had. Some people think that
it represents some form or type of superior knowledge. Still others
think of it as a mythical story told to explain how sin began. None of
these concepts are comprehensive enough to adequately explain the true
nature of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
I fear that I now know the meaning of these verses. The tree of this
knowledge lies deep within the soul of man. It is what the Christian
teacher Watchman Nee refers to as "the latent power of the soul". So
what is this latent power that lies hidden deep within the inner
recesses of man's soul? I believe that it is a type of angelic power,
which might be better thought of as Adamic power.
Man is a sub-angelic being who is endowed with a certain degree of
latent angelic capability. Man is not an angel, but man may be
distantly related to the angels in some manner. Under certain
circumstances, the latent angelic capability of a relatively few number
of people can become momentarily activated for short periods of time.
Probably at least 99% of the human race never experiences any of this
activation and thus are totally oblivious to the existence of the
latent angelic capability within themselves.
Activation of this capability primarily occurs during spiritual
dreams while asleep. The person begins a troubled dream while in a deep
sleep, then slips into a state of spiritual dreaming through which the
person can temporarily enter into the angelic mode. While in this
temporary angelic mode, the person is able to direct the course of
future events, depending what the subject of spiritual dream is. If the
person exercises his angelic powers in concert with the direction of
the Holy Spirit of God, the results will be good and beneficial. If the
person exercises his angelic powers in a unilateral manner, then the
results will inevitably be evil. The person acting in a unilateral way
is trying to play God by usurping God's authority in total disregard to
God's will. This is the reason why Adam and Eve fell in the garden. As
a result, they were stripped of their innocence and left naked before
the Lord. It appears that the ability to be activated runs in certain
families. It may also be that this ability may skip generations within
a family, as well as individuals within an active generation. My
father's mother was an angelically active person, but my father never
experienced activation as I have.
In honesty, I must admit that I have exercised this angelic power
both ways in the past, for the good of mankind when exercised in
concert with the Holy Spirit and to the detriment of man when I
exercised it unilaterally. This was largely done in ignorance before I
realized what the exact nature of this power was and how capricious
this Adamic power can be. It has a Jekyll and Hyde quality about it and
must be exercised with extreme caution and then only under the guidance
of the Holy Spirit. Adam was warned about this danger, but he chose to
disregard God's warning. When God told Adam not to eat of that tree, He
was telling him not to exercise his angelic capability because it would
cause him fail the test and all future mankind with him. After man's
fall in the Garden, this capability became latent. Because Adam sinned,
he was not permitted to eat of the tree of life. The way of the tree of
life would have to be personified in the Way, the Truth and the Life in
order for man to have that opportunity again to gain eternal life and
that life is in God's only begotten son, our Lord and Savior Jesus
Christ.
My experience with this phenomenon is that it begins in earnest
during the early teen years, reaches its peak about 30-35 years of age
and then slowly declines until it reaches a point of near cessation
during one's lower fifties. The time of greatest power during a
person's early thirties is also the time of greatest danger because it
when the greatest extremes of good and evil are possible. Momentary
angelity can a potent stealth weapon if used unwisely. Following
one's spiritual instincts can indeed be dangerous, thus the person
must stay close to God and be clothed in His righteousness. The old
testament and book of Acts states that the young men shall see visions
and the old men shall dream dreams. In those days, an old man could be
any man past the age of thirty because life expectancy was not very
long in those days. I have experienced these visions and dreams in the
past. The visions are basically learning experiences while the dreams
are basically doing experiences.
Adam lost any chance to gain access to the tree of life in the garden
when he disobeyed God, thereby losing the opportunity for eternal life
with God in heaven. As children of Adam, we also share that lost
opportunity, but God in his great mercy has created another way for us
to obtain eternal life with Him. God sent his Son, the Lord Jesus
Christ, to die and shed his blood to free us from the first Adam's
curse and our own sin. Through faith in the Lord Jesus we are born anew
into God's family and receive the promise of the Father that we will
stand faultless before the throne at the day of judgement. We are no
longer children of disobedience, but we are now children of God fit for
His kingdom. All that is required of us is simple faith in the Lord
Jesus and His sacrificial death on the cross, and to open our hearts
and minds to the working of the Holy Spirit of God.
Man tries his own methods of attempting to tap into this latent
angelic capability that some are vaguely aware of within themselves.
Some gnostics, certain psychics, many new agers, kundalini yogis,
certain mediums and supernaturalists of various kinds are trying in
their own way to regain the power that Adam and Eve possessed, abused
and subsequently lost during the fall. Little do they realize that they
are playing with spiritual dynamite. A few people may try to regain
this Adamic power with an intent of somehow attaining angelic status
which they think might give them access to the tree of life. God has
blocked this route with his cherubim and flaming sword. They would be
far better off to seek the Lord Jesus Christ and His righteousness as
the path to eternal life. Having experienced this Adamic power first
hand, I am well acquainted with good and evil even as Adam was. I thank
God that Christ is my refuge, that in Him I find forgiveness through
faith in His shed blood and that He sets my feet on the path of
righteousness for His name's sake. Truly He is the Way, the Truth and
the Life. Praise be to God for His everlasting grace, love and mercy.
Under the Blood of Jesus,
Richard E. Franing
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There is a beautiful and very popular spiritual social networking called Guru's Feet (http://www.gurusfeet.com)
It provides social networking (they call it spiritual networking), blogs, forums, spiritual communities, listing of gurus and ashrams, online universal temple and other many spiritual gadgets.
According to their manifesto in the website, their aim is to promote inter-religion/tradition unity, to provide spiritual people from different religions, beliefs and traditions a place where they can develope their own community around a guru/religion etc while opening to other people of other beliefs.
A great cause for a social networking!
This arena is for long time not a void and it seems that spiritual people are very communicative and sustained members of this portal. I have been there for over 3 months.
See below about Guru's Feet social networking (http://www.gurusfeet.com). The spiritual social networking is not a void for quite a long time...
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Before "Web 2.0" it was one giant social network. You could link password-free to anyone you wanted, post files, pictures, all sorts of templates, and even links to databases. Sorry to see it going but hopefully we'll acknowledge it after everything has been FaceBooked to death.
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Nice collections! I just created a Vibes account.. :)
I especially liked the iminlikewithyou.com wow!
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This site allows you to create your own social network
http://www.neeetz.com
If you have design skills you can make your personal network to look like the aforementioned sites. It's pretty cool as far as I can tell.
Once again solid list!
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http://www.micronichesocialnetworks.com
This site has a ton of resources for how this is being done.
its only a couple of days old...
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I will join all of these social networks.
Always looking for workable, usable networks with lot's of action.
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hmm i thiss socials networkss aree cool
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i think del.icio.us is functional…but not beautiful
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Here's another social network with a great, beautiful concept. It's called Trustler (http://trustler.com). If Twitter tends to answer the question: What are you doing?, then Trustler answers: What do people think about me?
The network is called the Motherland.